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Tramway-related
Photos
Medium-sized
(32 seats) tramway #279 of the Rosario Municipal Transportation Enterprise
Company (Empresa Municipal de Transporte de Rosario, E.M.T.R.) photographed
in 1946 during the tests previous to entering service. This vehicle
was the first of a series of modern units (#279-288) that they were conceived
as of the three experimentals tramways #276, 277 and 278 built by the previous
Rosario Transportation Municipal Mixed Enterprise Company in 1939.
Photo:
Eng. Adolfo López Maier Collection / A.R.A.R.
The
crisis of the urban transportation system motivated for lack of tyres and
spare parts during the years of World War II maintained almost thoroughly
immobilized the important bus fleet of the E.M.T.R. This traduced
in an increase in demand of the tramway system, with passenger agglomerations
as can be observed in this sight of a small size tramway (28 seats) climbing
under the Central Argentine Railway tracks in the Celedonio Escalada underpass
near Rosario Norte station.
Photo:
Eng. Adolfo López Maier Collection / A.R.A.R.
Tramway
coach #141 running in the Route #16, front to the Municipal Palace and
Cathedral, around the end of the 1950s. This tramway was of the "small"
type with seven window rows and twenty-eight seats, belonging to a series
of sixty units (#101-160) incorporated to the service by the General Company
of the Electrical Tramways of Rosario (CGTER) from 1906, they endowed with
two traction motors ACEC-CHARLEROI T.3 of 29 HP each one and a total weight
of 11 metric tons. Photo: ARAR Collection.
In
the same era and site of the previous photograph, but to the service of
the Route #13, we can observe the tramway #42, unit of the "large" type
with ten window rows and forty seats. This wide car was forming part
of a total of hundred twenty units (#1-100 and #161-180) incorporated to
the service by the CGTER among 1906 and 1913 to attend the routes with
greater loads and length, equipped with two traction motors ACEC-CHARLEROI
30 of 40 HP each one and a total weight of 16 metric tons. Photo:
ARAR Collection.
Tramway
#134, car of the "small" type with capacity of 28 seats, in Corrientes
Avenue corner San Lorenzo street around the end of the decade of 1930.
These vehicles were employed with preference in those lines with shorter
length, being affected the units with greater capacity (32 and 40 seats)
to the longest trips or with smaller passengers renovation.
Photo:
ARAR Collectión
Sight of the bogies section of the Tramways Shop of the Municipal Mixed
Transportation Company of Rosario (circa 1933). In this sector was
effected the repairs or maintenance projects that were including wheels,
shafts, traction motors and rolling sets. These facilities were put
in service by the Belgian Company in 1907 and yet subsist, in character
of Central Shops of the Rosario Municipality, with many of the machines
and original equipment is still in service.
Photo:
ARAR Collection.
Tramway
coach #19, in the Route #1 in front to its head-board of the Córdoba
and Rosario Railway Station, in a image circa 1910. The vehicle waits
the moment of their departure with its trolleys low but already regularly
occupied by passengers that in short moments would begin their travel with
course downtown with final destination the Rosario Norte Station of the
Central Argentine Railway.
The
same as the small and medium-size streetcars, these of the large type originally
were lacking frontal coating in both platforms, therefore during the 1920s
were modified in order to offering protection to the crew against the adverse
climatic agents that in that era were causing devastation among the tramway
staff, mainly in the form of respiratory diseases.
Other
detail to take into account is the particular physiognomy of the “high
adherence” bogies of that originally belonged to the local large-type streetcars,
that counting on an endowed motor axle of normal size wheels and an axle
with reduced diameter wheels. With the course of the years these
bogies were modified to the symmetrical type with uniform diameter wheels.
Photo:
Gift from Mr. Joaquín Orse / A.R.A.R. Collection
Though
the tramway fleets are universally recognized as a mode for the passengers
transportation, commonly also count on vehicles destined for maintenance
and repairs service, as the case of these two open motor platforms for
the transportation of raw materials, that they were employed in individual
form or to tow wagons destined to coal transportation among the port and
the own powerhouse of the tramway company (among 1906 and 1913, when that
powerhouse was deactivated and the electricity supply was provided by Sociedad
de Electricidad del Rosario).
Also
they were used in several opportunities to transport meat and bread in
occasion of some strikes that affected the said basic distribution for
the population, as accredited it the magazines and newspapers of the era
(mainly during the turbulent decade of 1910-1920). These freight tramways
also they were used as mobile platforms for the exhibition of allusive
motives in the patriotic holidays, giving a color note by the originality
of the represented motives and the profuse lighting with which were provided
for the occasion.
Photo:
A.R.A.R. Collection
Argentina
employed the British system (left hand) for the traffic of road vehicles
until 1945, when was changed to the international traffic system by the
right. This also it was applied to the tramway systems of the country,
what transported the accomplishment of important modifications in the track
and related appliances.
In
Rosario were accomplished numerous track projects to adapt the existing
structures to the new circulatory plan, though in some cases these were
solved with the change of march sense of several streets; in other cases,
the modifications were delayed awaiting better technical or economic opportunities
(for example, the renovation of the track in specific sections).
The
photograph attached shows an accident occurred in 1947 among the large-type
tramway coach # 20 of in service in the Route 5 and other large car of
the Route 18 in Salta Avenue. The second car apparently took a crossover
turnout among the two tracks with their needles wrongly directed toward
the opposing track, by where runs in sense opposed the first tramway;
fortunately, the collision was produced to low speed and the
damages
do not appear be serious.
Precisely
to avoid this type of accidents is that customary practice (so much tramway
as railway) indicates that in double route, the crossover turnouts among
both tracks are had with their needles in opposition to the normal sense
of march.
Photo:
A.R.A.R. Collection
The
Rosario Municipal Mixed Transportation Company (E.M.M.T.R.) began by mid
1930s a series of experiences intended for to design a new type of tramway
that were adapted to the modern conditions of the urban transportation.
Continuing the same criterion employed in the series of 32-seats prototype
tramways (#276-277-278) in those which were tested electrical equipment
originating from different manufacturers, also was built a series of large
40-seats bogie streetcars, that received the numbers 301-302-303.
These cars were put in service in 1944 and they were built totally in the
shops of the E.M.M.T.R., being widely recognized by their modern lines
and the agility of them.
In
this image can observe the car #303 in his last service years, running
in the Route 14 in the corner of Ovidio Lagos avenue and San Luis street.
Photo:
A.R.A.R. Collection